Four injured in blast at Moscow bus stop

Three people were lightly injured on Monday night when an improvised explosive device, apparently placed in a bag, detonated at a Moscow bus stop, police said.

“The latest reports indicate that four people were injured as a result of the incident”.

Russian police investigators inspect a damaged bus stop after a blast in the Pokrovka street, central Moscow on December 7, 2015.

Interior Minister spokesman Andrei Galiakberov told Interfax news agency that police were working to establish the cause of the explosion.

Emergency services are now tending to the injured. On the one hand, the place and time of the explosion do not look like a classic terrorist attack.

A criminal case on charges of hooliganism has been opened, the spokesman said.

“Two women were taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds while the third victim suffered minor cuts and was given medical assistance on the spot”, the TASS news agency quoted a source as saying.

“I first thought there were people shooting and I ran away from the bus stop”, she said.